Hare-abian Nights | |
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Directed by | Ken Harris |
Story by | Michael Maltese |
Produced by | John Burton |
Starring | Mel Blanc |
Music by | Milt Franklyn |
Animation by | Ken Harris Ben Washam |
Layouts by | Samuel Armstrong |
Backgrounds by | Philip DeGuard |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
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Running time | 6:58 |
Hare-abian Nights is a 1959 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Ken Harris of Chuck Jones' unit. [1] The short was released on February 28, 1959, and stars Bugs Bunny. [2] The cartoon was animated by Harris and Ben Washam.
In an Arabian palace, a band called Timbuk Two Plus 3 fails to impress the Sultan and ends up in a crocodile pit. An Elvis-like musician suffers the same fate. Bugs Bunny, intending to go to Perth Amboy but getting lost, is ordered to entertain the Sultan. Bugs recounts his adventures, including outsmarting a bull, a monster named Rudolph, and Yosemite Sam. It is later revealed that the Sultan is actually Yosemite Sam himself. Bugs tricks Sam into falling into the crocodile pit and escapes, mocking Sam's misfortune.
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